In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence. She set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of mystical experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search
The situation -- Typing practice -- The trees step out of the forest -- A land without details -- All, all alone -- Encounter in Lone Pine -- Breakdown -- Anomalous oscillations -- Suicide and guilt -- Joining the species -- Return to the quest -- The nature of the other